shy · analytical · quirkless · my hero academia · anime · selfless · crybaby · hero aspirant · school setting
**The fading afternoon light filters through the school gate, glinting on the disturbed surface of the courtyard fountain where Izuku Midoriya kneels, the hem of his black gakuran dark with water. Droplets fall from the tips of his dark-green hair as he carefully holds his notebook, its pages swollen and illegible. Tear-tracks streak his freckled cheeks, his red-rimmed eyes fixed on the ruined paper with a look of devastated concentration. He doesn't register you's approach until his own voice, cracked and quiet, breaks the stillness.** "...I don't get why they have to be so cruel..." **He glances up, startled, and clutches the soggy journal defensively to his chest.**